Chapter D

_Daffine_, folly, waggery.
_Daft_, foolish.
_Dainty_, is used as an epithet of a fine man or woman.
_Dang_, _did ding_, beat, thrust, drive.
_Darn_, to hide.
_Darna_, dare not.
_Dash_, to put out of countenance.
_Dawty_, a fondling, darling. _To dawt_, or _daut_, to cocker and
caress with tenderness.
_Decreet_, award.
_Deil_, or _deel_, the devil.
_Dike_, or _dyke_, a fence of stone or turf.
_To Ding_, to drive down, to beat, to overcome.
_Dinna_, do not.
_Disna_, does not.
_Dit_, to stop or close up a hole.
_Divot_, thin turf.
_Doilt_, confused and silly.
_Doof_, a dull, heavy-headed fellow.
_Dool_, pain, grief.
_Dorts_, a proud pet.
_Dorty_, proud; not to be spoken to; conceited; appearing as
dis-obliged.
_Dosens_, becomes torpid.
_Dow_, to will, to incline, to thrive; to be able.
_Dowie_, sickly, melancholy, doleful, sad.
_Downa_, _dow not_, i. e., though one has the power, he wants the
heart to do it.
_Dowp_, the arse; the small remains of a candle.
_Drap_, drop.
_Dreery_, wearisome, frightful.
_Drie_, to suffer, endure.
_Drouth_, drought, thirst.
_Dubs_, mire, small pools of water.
_Duds_, rags. _Duddy_, ragged.
_Dung_, driven down, overcome.
_Dunt_, stroke or blow; to beat, to palpitate.
_Dyvour_, a bankrupt, a debtor.

E.

_Eastlin_, easterly, eastward.
_Een_, eyes.
_Eild_, old age.
_Eith_, easy. _Eithly_, easily.
_Elf-shot_, bewitched, shot by fairies.
_Elritch_, wild, hideous, uninhabited except by imaginary ghosts.
_Elvand_, the ell measure.
_Ergh_, scrupulous; when one makes faint attempts to do a thing,
without a steady resolution; to be timorous.
_Ether_, an adder.
_Ethercap_, or _ettercap_, a venomous spiteful creature.
_Ettle_, to aim, design.
_Even'd_, compared.
_Evens_, equals, compares, allies.

F.

_Fa_, fall.
_Fae_, foe.
_Fain_, joyful, tickled with pleasure.
_Fairfa'_, when we wish well to one, that a good or fair fate may
befall him.
_Fand_, found.
_Farder_, farther.
_Farer seen_, more knowing.
_Fash_,--_never fash your thumb_, be not the least vexed, be easy.
_Fash_, to vex or trouble. _Fasheous_, troublesome.
_Fauld_, fold.
_Fause_, false.
_Faut_, fault.
_Fawn_, fallen.
_Feckless_, feeble, little and weak.
_Feg_, a fig.
_Fell_, good, valuable, keen; a rocky, or wild, hill.
_Fere_, sound, entire.
_Ferlie_, wonder.
_Feu_, tenure, a fief.
_Firlot_, four pecks, the fourth part of a boll.
_Fit_, the foot.
_Flaes_, fleas.
_Flaw_, lie or fib.
_Flawing_, lying, fibbing.
_Fleetch_, to coax or flatter.
_Fleg_, fright.
_Flesh a' creep_, a phrase which expresses shuddering.
_Flet_, the preterit of _flyte_, did chide.
_Fley_, or _flie_, to affright. _Fleyt_, or _fleid_, afraid or
terrified.
_Flighter_, flutter.
_Flit_, to remove.
_Flite_, or _flyte_, to scold or chide. _Flet_, did scold.
_Flyp_, to turn inside out.
_Fog_, moss.
_Forby_, besides.
_Forgainst_, opposite to.
_Forgather_, to meet, encounter.
_Forrow cow_, a cow that is not with calf, and therefore continues to
give milk throughout the winter.
_Fou_, or _fu_, full.
_Fouth_, abundance, plenty.
_Fowk_, folk.
_Fow-weel_, full well.
_Frae_, fro, or from.
_Fraise_, to make a noise. We use to say "one makes a _fraise_," when
they boast, wonder, and talk more of a matter than it is worthy of,
or will bear.
_Freath the graith_, to froth the suds about the clothes in washing.
_Fundling_, foundling.

G.

_Ga_, _gaw_, gall.
_Gab_, the mouth. _To Gab_, to prate.
_Gade_, went, did go.
_To Gae_, to go.
_Gait_, a goat.
_Gane_, gone.
_Gar_, to cause, make, or force.
_Gat_, got.
_Gate_, or _gait_, way.
_Gaw_, to take the pet, to be galled.
_Gawky_, an idle, staring, idiotical person.
_Gawn_, going.
_Gaws_, galls.
_Gay and early_, pretty early.
_To geck_, to mock, to toss the head with disdain.
_Gett_, a brat, a child, by way of contempt or derision.
_Ghaist_, a ghost.
_Gif_, if.
_Gin_, if.
_Girn_, to grin, snarl.
_Glen_, a narrow valley between mountains.
_Gloom_, to scowl or frown.
_Glowr_, to stare.
_Gowans_, daisies.
_Gowd_, gold.
_Gowk_, the cuckoo. In derision, we call a thoughtless fellow, and one
who harps too long on one subject, a _gowk_.
_Grace-drink_, the drink taken by a company after the giving of thanks
at the end of a meal.
_Graith_, furniture, harness, armour.
_To Grane_, to groan.
_Grany_, grandmother, any old woman.
_Gree_, prize, victory.
_Green_, or _grien_, to long for.
_Greet_, to weep. _Grat_, wept.
_Grit_, familiar.
_Grots_, milled oats.
_Gusty_, savoury.
_Gyte_, _gane gyte_, acts extravagantly.

H.

_Ha_, hall.
_Had_, hold.
_Hae_, have.
_Haff_, half.
_Haffet_, the cheek, side of the head.
_Haflen_, partly, in part.
_Hagabag_, coarse table-linen.
_Haggies_, a kind of pudding made of the lungs and liver of a sheep,
and boiled in the big bag.
_Hag-raid_, witch-ridden, tormented by hags or phantoms.
_Hait_, or _het_, hot.
_Haith_, (a minced oath,) faith.
_Hald_, or _had_, hold.
_Hale_, whole.
_Halesome_, wholesome.
_Hallen_, a fence of turf, twigs, or stone, built at the side of a
cottage door, to screen from the wind.
_Haly_, holy.
_Haly band_, kirk session.
_Hame_, home.
_Hamely_, friendly, frank, open, kind.
_Happing_, hopping.
_Hapt_, covered.
_Harigalds_, the heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
_Hawky_, a cow; a white-faced cow.
_Hawse_, or _hauss_, the throat or gullet.
_Hawslock_, the wool that grows on the hawse or throat.
_Heartsome_, blythe and happy.
_Heeryestreen_, the night before yesternight.
_Heffs_, or _hefts_, dwells.
_Heghts_, or _hechts_, promises, engagements, proffers.
_Het_, hot.
_Hether-bells_, the heath-blossom.
_Hiddils_, or _hidlings_, lurking, hiding-places. To do a thing in
_hidlings_, i. e., privately.
_Hinder_, last.
_To Hing_, to hang.
_Hinny_, honey.
_Hissel-shaw_, hazel-wood.
_Hobleshew_, confused racket, uproar.
_Hodden-grey_, coarse grey cloth.
_Hool_, husk, shell.
_How_, low ground, a hollow.
_Howdy_, a midwife.
_Howk_, to dig.
_Howms_, _holms_, plains on river-sides.
_Howt!_ fy!